variations on sakura

"Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another." --The City in the Middle of the Night

Ecce Homo.

1.
tanglegloaming here
NO'E GIRZU · extraction
of a citizen

awaited endgame · split tree
eloquent of harsh forces

2.
the arctic, burning;
its permafrost, softening;
carbon is released

dawn colors caught by the ribs
of the sculpture on the way

3.
chased from my password
music from ten years ago
morning arguments

if i could just bring this next
big project to fruition

4.
sing of melody
number play made legible
on the pot-holed road

the brush of your lips, leaving
the only time this morning

5.
trans-temporal waip
purple wig & all · one step
from fires of Tlaloc

gas is going down · strangely
i can feel no joy at this

6.
RRAI · RROI · some
place west of Gnosticism
ever & anon

the dull light that might be storms
distant · & might be nothing

7.
nautilus regrets
darker gray on the gray clouds
these books, i can toss

ache in the habnds · Wolfskinder
just-risen sun over fields

Painting rat. (via lanny quarles on fb)